Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her achievements have not been forgotten , and five awards are given annually to commemorate her work in the field of nutrition and public awareness of healthy eating . |
| 2 | Some examples are listed below to help you . |
| 3 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 4 | in which all the fingertips of the hand are joined together to form something that resembles a bird 's beak . |
| 5 | But the traditional banana-producing countries are banding together to save their skins . |
| 6 | Iced sardines are trodden underfoot to soften them up . |
| 7 | questions — you will find lots of these at the end of each section : they are included mainly to stimulate your own reflections as you read , but they could also be drawn on when group discussion — at a meeting in a parish or deanery or diocesan synod — is being planned |
| 8 | Meanwhile cable companies are pressing ahead to develop their own black boxes which will turn the humble television into a computerized communications centre . |
| 9 | Police are want particularly to contact someone who was driving a black K-registration car near the green at Writtle at about 3 pm on Wednesday . |
| 10 | Indeed , rather than attempting to teach a chimpanzee to communicate like a human , it might have been considered easier to teach it to communicate like a dog . |
| 11 | Union leaders have been meeting today to discuss their response to the job cuts : |
| 12 | OFFICIALS at the Football Association are meeting today to discuss what action to take following pitch invasions during Colchester United 's match with Cardiff City at Layer Road on Friday night . |
| 13 | Leicestershire enter the table , and might have qualified last year if an adjustment had been made then to bring their figures into line with practices adopted by all the other counties . |
| 14 | Software for Free has been written especially to help you make that decision without having to plough through mountains of Shareware and Public Domain Software first . |
| 15 | It 's easy when you 're pushing forward to keep it straight , it 's when you bring it back it tends to twist . |
| 16 | We 're going home to see him . |
| 17 | Anita echoes this : ‘ As parents , we 're trying hard to bring our three up decently , and the thought that my sister-in-law could chuck it all out of the window depresses the hell out of me . |
| 18 | Jonathan Ripman , mitigating , said Youds , who had no previous motoring convictions , had been rushing home to see his family in Liverpool . |
| 19 | Suppose you are turning Left to intercept your track at 50° . |
| 20 | In the meantime the BDDA in 1966 initiated a scheme whereby deaf students from this country are helped financially to continue their education at Gallaudet . |
| 21 | We are staying here to finish our drinks . ’ |
| 22 | The providers of such services are moving rapidly to develop their shares of this market . |
| 23 | The pavements had been cobbled here to give it a quaint feel , and coach-loads of tourists were shuffling along with cameras dangling and guides chivvying . |
| 24 | At this moment , groups of people are getting together to publish their own work . |
| 25 | ‘ Two of the big stores in town are getting together to put it on . |
| 26 | The fact that two former arch-rivals are getting together to produce their own high-powered operating system — codenamed Pink — shows how serious they regard the threat of Microsoft 's Windows . |
| 27 | Villagers in parts of South America are reputed traditionally to vacate their villages , lock , stock and barrel when a large ant army is approaching , and to return when the legions have marched through , having cleaned out every cockroach , spider and scorpion even from the thatched roofs . |
| 28 | Women have' in their distress , been known repeatedly to bang their heads on the walls and floor to cut and injure themselves . |
| 29 | Rule utilitarianism is often advocated , on grounds of fairness , as necessary to counter the excuses of the ‘ free rider ’ who does not bother to stick to a moral rule because enough others are doing so to produce its benefits . |
| 30 | Sides are coming here to block us and Spurs did it very well . ’ |